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  • Can Voter Suppression Increase Electoral Bias?

    Can Voter Suppression Increase Electoral Bias?

    By Bernard Tamas, Associate Professor of Political Science, Valdosta State University
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    MIT Election Lab
    Dec 18, 2020
    The Challenges of Auditing Local Redistricting

    The Challenges of Auditing Local Redistricting

    This post was written by Brian Amos, an assistant professor at Wichita State University.
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    MIT Election Lab
    Dec 7, 2020
    Happy Election Day!

    Happy Election Day!

    As political scientists here at the MIT Election Lab, we are really social scientists. We work with many others to understand what’s…
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    MIT Election Lab
    Nov 3, 2020
    North Carolina: What’s Happening with Early Voting?

    North Carolina: What’s Happening with Early Voting?

    A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
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    Nov 3, 2020
    What’s Happening with Mail-In Ballots in Wisconsin?

    What’s Happening with Mail-In Ballots in Wisconsin?

    A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
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    MIT Election Lab
    Nov 3, 2020
    What’s Happening with Mail In Voting in Georgia?

    What’s Happening with Mail In Voting in Georgia?

    A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
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    Nov 3, 2020
    Spotlight on Texas: Record Breaking Early Vote Turnout

    Spotlight on Texas: Record Breaking Early Vote Turnout

    Today’s post was written by Kevin DeLuca, a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School and researcher for the Stanford-MIT Healthy…
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    Nov 3, 2020
    What’s Happening with Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Ballots?

    What’s Happening with Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Ballots?

    A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
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    Oct 30, 2020
    Talking Elections: Voter Education

    Talking Elections: Voter Education

    In Episode 3 of our video series Talking Elections, we wanted to take a look at voter education which is an important topic that doesn’t…
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    MIT Election Lab
    Oct 27, 2020
    Solving the Problem of Long Lines on Election Day

    Solving the Problem of Long Lines on Election Day

    What does queuing theory say about managing polling places amid COVID-19?
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    MIT Election Lab
    Oct 19, 2020
    Under the Hood of Election Science

    Under the Hood of Election Science

    Data from the Election Assistance Commission
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    MIT Election Lab
    Oct 12, 2020
    Exploring Voting Equipment and Inequality in the 2016 U.S. General Election (Part 2)

    Exploring Voting Equipment and Inequality in the 2016 U.S. General Election (Part 2)

    Using county-level residual voting rate and demographic data to see how voting equipment can shape voting equality
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    MIT Election Lab
    Oct 5, 2020
    How Can Researchers and Election Administrators Work Together?

    How Can Researchers and Election Administrators Work Together?

    MEDSL Founding Director Charles Stewart III interviewed Mara Suttmann-Lea of Connecticut College, Lia Merivaki of Mississippi State, and…
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    MIT Election Lab
    Sep 28, 2020
    Voting by Mail During a Global Pandemic

    Voting by Mail During a Global Pandemic

    America’s Electorate is Increasingly Polarized Along Partisan Lines About Voting by Mail During the COVID-19 Crisis
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    MIT Election Lab
    Sep 21, 2020
    What the Elections Performance Index can — and can’t — tell us about Vote-By-Mail

    What the Elections Performance Index can — and can’t — tell us about Vote-By-Mail

    Our post today was written by Pia Deshpande, a writer with the MIT Election Lab.
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    Jul 31, 2020
    Amid a Pandemic and Social Unrest, Turnout Holds Its Own in the Primaries.

    Amid a Pandemic and Social Unrest, Turnout Holds Its Own in the Primaries.

    What this Means for November
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    Charles Stewart
    Jun 15, 2020
    How was DC’s primary different this year?

    How was DC’s primary different this year?

    Police brutality, protests against police brutality, the pandemic, and curfews all shape this year’s election.
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    MIT Election Lab
    Jun 12, 2020

    Voting by Mail in the U.S.

    Past, Present, and Future Advancements
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    May 15, 2020
    What do we know about vote-by-mail?

    What do we know about vote-by-mail?

    Lessons from Wisconsin, North Carolina, and beyond
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    MIT Election Lab
    May 5, 2020
    Concern about Coronavirus and Political Messaging: A First Look

    Concern about Coronavirus and Political Messaging: A First Look

    If COVID-19 is, at least for now, invisible to most Americans, what explains why some are concerned about it, while others are not?
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    MIT Election Lab
    Mar 20, 2020
    Introducing: State Election Landscapes

    Introducing: State Election Landscapes

    An in-depth look at election administration in 6 states
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    MIT Election Lab
    Feb 27, 2020
    Filling in the Gaps

    Filling in the Gaps

    Data Completeness and the EPI
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    MIT Election Lab
    Dec 6, 2019
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